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Chinese begins with basics like characters, builds up to words, and reaches idioms. This free resource introduces advanced idioms like 「興家立業」, with details below.

Here’s the idiom 「興家立業」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Build a family and create a career.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xìng jiā lì yè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hing1 ga1 lap6 yip6

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